"It's just a painting," Aunt Carol had said, her voice sharp. "We need the space." The vibrant landscape, painted by her great-grandmother, now leaned against the wall in the spare bedroom. The colors seemed muted.

Emily felt a pressure building behind her eyes. It wasn't just a painting. It was a window into another time, another world. She could almost smell the sea air.

She picked at the loose thread of her sweater. The air felt thin. She needed to leave the room.

Emotion: sorry

Cluster: Sadness / Despair
PC1 (Valence): -2.02 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.36

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sorry. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 sorry stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sorry emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sorry vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
S0.604
L0.549
😞0.382
😔0.364
ness0.324
Suppressed:
de-0.675
la-0.536
(!)-0.323
!-0.298
l-0.288